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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Week, do, Leading Articles:—
The Foreign Representatives and the Chinese
Emperor
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1898.
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The Marquis of Salisbury's Guildhall Speech ...410 Reform in Chins
...411 Chinese Shareholders and English Company Law 4/1 The Inter-port Rifle Match The Philippines Question
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The Plague and its Treatment im cmen ma.....412 Prospects at Kiaoshau
The Now Bishop of Victoria ............ ... ............... Reviews
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Loss of the Steamer Activ... Piracy in Chinese Waters....................................415 Affairs in the Philippines Insurgent Traitor ...... Shall the Spanish Priests
Philippines?............ Hongkong Sanitary Board The Medical Officer of Health on the Plague...........417 .417 Bribery harges Against Public Servants .......418 Liability of Chinese Shareholders in Respect of Calls 419 Toe Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Limited, Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
Chinese Extradition Case
Water Return...
The Hongkong Rifle Association
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Correspondence
The Emperor of China
China's Beresford Force"
Land Sale at Kiaochau
Royalty and Sport at Kiaochau
Lord Chas. Beresford at Newchwang
The Parramatta în Collision
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The salary attached to the office of Accountant- General of Biam, which Mr. B. J. Rivett-Carnac, of Burmah, has accepted, is to be £2,500 per annum. Mr. Carnac will be seconded for ser- vice in Siam for two years.
Mr. H. Eschke, H. I. G. M.'s Cousul at Sin- gapore, arrived at Bangkok on the 2nd instant. He will act as German Chargé d'Affaires, the Legation being vacant owing to the death of Herr von Seldeneck, the late Minister.
The Minister for Japan is reported to have had an audience of their Majesties the Emperor of China and the Empress Dowager. It appears now to be satisfactorily established that the Emperor is alive and that he still holds his rank as head of the state, though the Imperial power is in the hands of the Empress Dowager.
H.E. Li Han-chang, ex-Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces and elder brother of Li Hung- chang, arrived at Shanghai on the 9th Novem- ber from his native province of Anhui. It is reported, the N. C. Daily News says, that H.E. is on his way to the North, having been sum- moned to Peking by the Empress Dowager.
We are glad to learn that the sickness among the Russian troops at Port Arthur is not so serious as it has been reported to be, There 42 have only been 23 cases of dysentery, due to 421 bad water. The water supply is inadequate for 421 the garrison of 6,000 troops, and the soldiers have been careless; but the natural supply is now being augmented by condensed water.- N. C. Daily News.
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Newchwang and Railway Development... ................ Waibaiwei in Transformation
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Trouble in Seoul...... .......................................................................................423
Szechuan Rebellion
The Yellow River Changes its Course Hongkong and Port News
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BIRTH.
On Monday, the 14th November, at Brockhurst, the Peak, the wife of H. A. RITCHIE, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 9th November, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., WILLIAM BUL LARD, to ERNESTINE C. AINSLIE, eldest daughter of the late Daniel Cowie Ainslie.
DEATH.
At his residence, Shanghai, on the 10th November, 1898, MATTEO VIZENZINOVICH, aged 70 years, late of the River Police, I.M. Customs
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 17th October arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 15th November (29 days); and the American mail of the 20th October arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 17th November (28 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Right Rev. Joseph Charles Hoare, M.A.' the new Bishop of Victoria, arrived by the last English mail steamer and was enthroned at St. John's Cathedral on the 12th November.
The development of the new territory of Kiaochau is making rapid strides. The firm of Selberg and Schlüter, engineers, of Berlin, have the contract for the erection of the first Government buildings. Roadmaking is to be commenced at once, and a large hotel is being built, so that in another twelve months Kiao- ohan will show considerable development.-~ Ostasiatisch Lloyd.
The N. C. Daily News of the 11th November says:-Lord Charles Beresford is due in Chefoo per Esang from Newchwang this morning, and will probably tranship to the El Dorado, which has orders to call with him at Kiaochou Bay en route to Shanghai, where Lord Charles may be expected on Monday night or Tuesday morning After a brief stay here Lord Charles will make a trip up the Yangtsze.
Consul-General Wildman is in receipt of & cablegram from General Otis, Military Gover- nor of Manila, that the Spanish steamer Buenos Aires, which it was reported had been seized by Admiral Dewey, was permitted to clear from Manila on the afternoon of 7th inst. for Iloilo and Singapore with nine hundred sick Spanish prisoners en route for Spain. There are at present two United States men- of-war in the harbour of Iloilo,
It is reported at Tientsin that an official tele- gram was received about the end of October from Taiyuenfu, capital of Shansi, to the effect that Chang Yin-huan had arrived in that city in safety, accompanied by a strong guard of soldiers, and that, if nothing prevented in the meantime, the exile would be able to pass the Chinese New Year at Suchou, Kansu province, the last city on this side of the Western ex tremity of the Great Wall.-N. C. Daily News. We learn from the Yushin Nippon that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce at Kobe has received a communication from the foreign Chamber, which proposes to address a memorial to the Japanese Government asking that at ports where Japanese Honorary Consuls have been appointed, certificates for goods to be im- ported into Japan shall be valid if stamped by the Customs authorities, as Honorary Consuls are usually themselves engaged in trade. The foreign Chamber asks for the co-operation of the Japanese Chamber in this matter.-Kobe Chronicle.
No. 21.
At the annual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank held in February, 1898, an announcement that the services of Mr. T. Jack. son as Chief Manager had been secured for a further term of three years was received with much satisfaction by the shareholders. That term is now nearing its expiry, but we under- stand Mr. Jackson has consented to prolong it for another year and strong efforts will be made to induce him to prolong it still further.
It is reported from Foochow that a foreigner has tendered for and obtained permission from the high provincial authorities in that city to coin copper cash for the use of the Government, and, in consequence, the minting machinery bought two years ago by the authorities has been handed over to the foreigner in question to use for his purpose. A proclamation legalis. is stated, will soon be issued for the informa ing the copper cash minted by the foreigner, it
tion of the native bankers, etc.-N. C. Daily News.
The Supao states that the Hsingli Land Com- pany of Woosung, the Directors of which are Taotai Tsai Chan (Vice), have recently sold a Taotai Shen Tun-ho (Chief) and the Shanghai piece of land at Woosung, bordering the river's edge, measuring 18- mow odd, to a Japanese syndicate for Tls. 200,000. Of this sum Tis. 60,000 have already been received as bargain money, the balance to be paid as soon as the bill of sale has been stamped and sealed by the Go- vernor at Soochow. The money obtained through the sale of land at Woosung will, it is stated, be devoted towards the working expenses of the new port.-N. C. Daily News.
ing frequent reference to a concession said to The American papers have of late been mak have been obtained by an American syndicate for a railway from Hankow to Hongkong. The syndicate in question has obtained the conces sion for a railway from Hankow to Canton, and, we believe, made strong efforts to get the con cession for the Canton and Kowloon, line, but without success. The concession for the Can- ton-Kowloon line has been in effect given to a syndicate represented by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. The prospect of the immedi- ate construction of this line has given rise to a little activity in dealings in land at Kowloon.
An extraordinary criminal libel case is in pro- gress at Singapore. A Mr. Archibald Allison, who formerly held a mercantile appointment in Sarawak, recently published in Singapore a book entitled The Real Pirates of Borneo,” and it is on passages in this book that pro- ceedings are being taken. The book was directed against "the official gang" and the prosecution of the writer has been insti- tated by the Government of Sarawak. The charges brought in the book against the Rajah are, according to the inuendoes in the information, that he had dishonestly tricked and defrauded large numbers of the British public out of money, that justice is not properly administered by him, that he and his friends attempted to injure the health and mind of a Mrs. Constable by administering_noxious poisonous drugs, and so forth. Evidence publication having been given the defendant's advocate said he would contend that the state- ments were justified, and for that purpose he would have to ask for an indefinite postpone- ment in order to bring witnesses from Sarawak. It was decided to adjourn the case until Dec. 3rd.
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